Even some houses that are ready to rent are having a hard time finding tenants; it's no one's idea of a summer vacation to see a house off its foundation two doors down, or hear contractors up the street sawing at 7 a.m.
On Tuesday, the sidewalk by the Morrisania slaughterhouse looked like a petting zoo for hard hats as construction workers digging a foundation next door strolled over to pet and take pictures of the goats.
As part of the deal, HealthSouth adopted the nonprofit foundation next door, complete with a biomechanical lab for studying throwing motions and golf swings, and equipped with cadavers and synthetic body parts, enabling fellows to hone their surgical skills.
Other telltale signs of foundation failure include doors and windows that will not close, chimneys or porches separating from the house and bowing basement walls.
He begins his European tour this month with three days of songwriting workshops and a concert at Liverpool Prison on behalf of his foundation, Jail Guitar Doors, which puts guitars in the hands of inmates.
By choosing a spend-out date, we knew we had a deadline for making sure the projects we were incubating and seeding were sustainable long after the foundation closes its doors.
Parker altered this formula when the foundation opened its doors in 1996, after the death of Betty Hutton.
An Iraqi group sent recently to Eridu to investigate found no evidence of tablets, he wrote: "Why all this media propaganda... for something that is not real?" George also scolded the Italians for unauthorized work at nearby Ur, another ancient Sumerian city, where he says they have dug out "foundation stones and door sockets" and taken them to a nearby museum.
Check around your foundation, windows and door frames for small holes, cracks or improper seals.
All the players were seated in rows in the auditorium at the foundation office when the doors swung opened.
